Catharine Cappe

Standard Name: Cappe, Catharine

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In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

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About 1765: Catharine Cappeimg: move in unlikely event...

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About 1765

Catharine Cappe opened one of the earliest recorded Sunday schools, at Catterick in Yorkshire.

1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...

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1769

Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

July 1780: Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday sc...

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July 1780

Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday school.

By October 1805: Catharine Cappe published Observations on...

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By October 1805

Catharine Cappe published Observations on Charity Schools, a hard-hitting critique of the existing situation.

By June 1806: Poems Written on Different Occasions by the...

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By June 1806

Poems Written on Different Occasions by the domestic servant Charlotte Richardson were selected, edited, and published with some account of the author by the middle-class activist and social reformer Catharine Cappe .

By late 1813: The York County Hospital relented and allowed...

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By late 1813

The York County Hospital relented and allowed lady visitors access to its patients.

1 April 1819: The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began...

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1 April 1819

The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began publishing a periodical, The Herald of Peace.

Texts

Cappe, Catharine. Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.